Kloostri
Coordinates: 58 ° 44 ' N , 23 ° 50' E
Kloostri (German monastery courtyard ) is a village ( Estonian küla ) in the rural municipality Lääneranna in Pärnu County (until 2017: rural municipality Lihula in Lääne County ).
Population and location
The place has 21 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2011). It is located 27 kilometers southeast of Haapsalu .
Near the village is the 24 meter high "mountain" Salumäe nearby | the Matsalu Bay ( Matsalu laht ).
Monastery courtyard
The name of the place comes from the local monastery courtyard. It was one of the main estates of the nunnery run by the Cistercians near Lihula . The founding of the monastery and estate may go back to the 13th century.
The heavily fortified main house was built from stone in the Middle Ages. After the Livonian War , the property fell to the Swedish state, which closed the monastery. The government in Stockholm pledged the estate in 1591 to Rittmeister Caspar von Tiesenhausen . In 1611 King Charles XI. the estate was donated to the honored military man Johann von Derfelden the Elder (1561-1633). For over two hundred years it was owned by the noble Baltic German family Derfelden .
As early as the middle of the 17th century, they had the magnificent two-storey mansion built in the Baroque style with two massive chimneys. Parts of the building probably go back to the medieval predecessor building. The utility rooms were on the ground floor, the living and representation rooms on the upper floor.
In 1829 the estate fell to the noble Baltic German family Fersen . The last private owner before the Estonian land reform in 1919 was the Baltic German baron Axel Nikolai von Fersen. The land was then divided among the local farmers.
The manor house was preserved in its original style until 1939, but was largely empty. Then the wooden parts that were used for the Soviet military bases were removed. Today only stone ruins can be seen. The roof is completely missing. The park of the manor and a few outbuildings have been preserved.
Personalities
- Dorothea von Arronet (1886–1973), painter, illustrator and graphic artist
literature
- Baltic historical local dictionary. Part 1: Estonia (including Northern Livonia). Started by Hans Feldmann . Published by Heinz von zur Mühlen . Edited by Gertrud Westermann . Cologne, Vienna 1985 (= sources and studies on Baltic history. Volume 8/1), ISBN 3-412-07183-8 , p. 234f.
Web links
- Entry in Eesti Entsüklopeedia (online version)
- Description (Estonian)
- Gut von Kloostri (Estonian)
- History of the estate (Estonian)